#control

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#forgiveness #kneel #own #power #death

As Lynn writes: "What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer have free will. I will do anything that person requests. I hate them for that. Nothing else is as bad as knowi that I am always out of control; knowing that I am still a laboratory experiment, a puppet whose strings are hidden from ever but my handlers, and I don't yet know how to break free. p216

— Lynn Hersha

#control #free-will #government-abuse #manipulation #military

When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#justice #self-control #freedom

The best fighter is never angry. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#anger-management #ataraxy #bushido #inner-peace #martial-arts

...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others... ↗

— John Geddes

#control #freedom

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#art #between #control #encounter #i

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#control #dispute #empowerment #intelligence #men

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. ↗

— Rumi

#intelligence #self-control #intelligence

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress ↗

— Steve Grand

#control #cybernetics #intelligence

Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing ↗

— John Paul Warren

#controlling #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren #leadership